ViewSonic Education

MARCH 24, 2022

It’s always better for employees to use their company-provided laptops and mobile devices for work, rather than their personal devices. Unsecured home networks make it easier for cybercriminals to access emails and passwords. To help, here are a few tips on how to create a secure password you can actually remember.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. 4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives. Mobile Beacon. Between September 2016 and May 2017 the program donated 1,600 computers and 870 4G mobile hotspots to low-income families in Denver, Colorado.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

With no guaranteed end in sight, we need Congress to take swift and decisive action to empower the federal E-rate funding program to support off-campus learning devices and connectivity, delivered via secure internet access. Along with the rest of society, K-12 students are facing a new challenge. We estimate that $5.25 The time is now.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Mobile learning provides enhanced collaboration among learners, access to information, and a deeper contextualization of learning. Koole (2009) No one will deny the impact that mobile is having on the world. Research by Cristol and Gimbert (2013) found that students utilizing mobile learning devices scored, on average, 52.34

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For one, access to education has been significantly broadened, facilitating a wide range of teaching strategies and learning styles. In some cases, demand far outstripped supply, leading to backlogs of requests for laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other school-issued devices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

And we introduce technologies in ways to make them more affordable and accessible to schools, districts and educational agencies. My Windows on Snapdragon laptop gets up to 28 hours of battery life, which helps me as I’m constantly on the go. How else does Qualcomm address the digital divide among students? No prototype.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Here are three alternative ideas for how to ensure students can learn from home when necessary. The devices use cell signals to transmit Wi-Fi to laptops.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. The state of Connecticut thinks it may have found a straightforward solution to the problem: Give every student in grades K-12 a laptop and pay for their internet. And for the past few months, the state has quietly been rolling it out.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

1990 – The Internet brings about unprecedented access to information. Both desktops and laptops continue to have places in modern classrooms. At many schools, laptops are issued to students to use throughout the school year. In general lessons, laptops are used primarily for note-taking, writing, and independent research.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I get from teachers in my online classes and on my blog is: “How do I do it?” Repurpose cart devices or class laptops to go home.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

Digital divide is a term used to describe the gap present in society between those who have access to the internet and technology and those who don’t. This plan serves as a $10 million investment to help the district’s more than 65,000 students complete their academic pathways and support their aspirations toward social and economic mobility.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s the key to ensuring constant access to classes, at any time, from anywhere, and offering students a personalized learning experience. So how can educators make the most of both worlds — technology and pedagogy — while granting the latter a leading role? Read more: How to get started with hybrid teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown. Related: How to reach students without internet access at home?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A critical component of any student’s educational journey is learning how to be better organized, complete tasks independently and persevere when an assignment is difficult. There’s little agreement over how to help kids who aren’t keeping up with their peers or who should be responsible for administering such help.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Now that you know what eBooks are and you can make money selling eBooks let’s get into how to write an eBook effectively and efficiently. This will give you an idea of how to price it and how many copies you will need to sell to make a profit. It gives you access to a greater audience. Step 1 – Research. Apple iBookstore.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Allen chatted with EdSurge about how liberating teachers from their desks by eliminating the need for HDMI cords—of any length—has impacted teaching and learning in her district. EdSurge: How has Vivi affected teacher mobility? Do you ever imagine how your practice might have been different had you had this tool?

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

How does higher education use mobile technology to teach? Normally our room is a progressive space, with all furniture on wheels, plenty of charging stations available, and multiple mobile screens (such as interactive whiteboards and screens reserved for videoconferencing). They have to learn how to learn autonomously.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

One evening a man from another culture asked me how to spell a specific word. From then on I brought my laptop computer to class. I didn’t need a projector nor a large screen TV, I only needed a laptop sized monitor. We began taking our mobile lab to schools, churches, libraries, and other non-profit sites.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Second is the need to create a 21 st century learning environment that is accessible for all students, encourages engagement and collaboration, and can be more easily tailored for different learning levels and needs. What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The ACP is a new long-term benefit that provides qualifying low-income households with a monthly discount of up to $30 per month (and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands), as well as a one-time $100 discount toward a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I teach online grad school classes in how to integrate tech into education. One topic I always ask students is how they manage cell phone usage in their classes. Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were addressed a decade ago. And why not?

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the Google Classroom Add-ons that you can now select and include in your Assignments section is BookWidgets and I’m extremely excited to share my latest video tutorial demonstrating how to easily create a Google Classroom Assignment using BookWidgets. How to Insert a BookWidget into Google Classroom using Add-ons.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 24, 2024

All sorts of readers, from students, researchers, and educators to casual readers, can now access their favorite books anytime, anywhere, without carrying heavy books. Not just accessibility and convenience but also cost-effectiveness have contributed to eBooks’ popularity. so readers can access eBooks anytime, anywhere.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

an LMS like Edmodo, Otus, or MyBigCampus–these often include an interactive gradebook, parent inclusion devices, a student discussion forum, polls, a way to collect and share resources, a class calendar, and access across a variety of digital devices. digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Read more: 4 Tips for using accessibility features to promote inclusion. Students with juvenile idiopathic arthritis or spina bifida, for example, may need to attend regular physical therapy sessions to retain their mobility. Doing so on a laptop or tablet lets their classmates move on to other assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. Getting there wasn’t easy.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The conversation has quickly shifted from whether technology should be used in learning to how we can use it to improve learning and ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational experiences. students are unable to access school online, and 42 million Americans don’t have the means to purchase internet access.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 22, 2020

In this post, I will share how to integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. How to Integrate #GoogleClassroom with #GoogleMeet. How to Integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet. If you’re using a mobile device, install the Google Meet app. As teachers across the U.S. Click To Tweet. Learn more. Video Meeting Tips.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Not long ago, mobile devices were considered perfect for any past-time activity, and had no place in the classroom. Read more: Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]. Then, all devices must be scanned for malware prior to them accessing the school network for the first time. Closing thoughts.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

. “It has opened up a huge educational resource to our kids who may not have access otherwise,” Hoffman said. Without the school computer, she wouldn’t have had her own laptop to work on. million mobile computers were sold for K-12 classrooms for a few hundred dollars. In 2016 alone, 12.6

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2017

As more schools discover the power and benefits of education technology, mobile devices such as Chromebooks, Macs and iPads in the classroom are becoming commonplace. The district’s iPad program has helped close the tech gap between kids who had access to technology at home and kids who did not.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Dan McMahon, VP of Product at SMART Technologies, says: “We’re excited to reveal Lumio’s Spark plan at TCEA this year, giving customers access to their top-priority organization-level features. A better understanding of the latest projection technology along with the why and how display size impacts learning in classrooms.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the Google Classroom Add-ons that you can now select and include in your Assignments section is BookWidgets and I’m extremely excited to share my latest video tutorial demonstrating how to easily create a Google Classroom Assignment using BookWidgets.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments. A big push that we started to do with COVID was to make our website mobile accessible" because some students lacked enough laptops at home.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Uneven access to devices makes getting assignments a challenge. About 1 in 5 students said it is “sometimes” or “never” easy to access assignments and classwork remotely. Compounding the issue this spring was that demand for devices outpaced supply , delaying purchase orders and how quickly districts could send laptops to students.

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